Clouds
Weather Tools
Air Masses
Fronts
Misc
100
This cloud looks piled up and puffy
What is a cumulous cloud?
100
This tool measures air temperature
What is a thermometer
100
This is the boundry between two air masses
What is a front
100
These symbols tell you there is an approaching cold front
What are blue triangles
100
This tool measures wind speed
What is a anemometer
200
this cloud looks tall, piled up and puffy
What is a cumulonimbus cloud
200
This tool measures the direction the wind is blowing
What is a wind vane?
200
A mass of warm air is called....
What is low pressure
200
These symbols show there is an approaching warm front
What are red half circles
200
This causes the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to increase
What is the burning of fuel
300
this cloud is layered (fog)
What is a stratus cloud
300
this tool measures the amount of precipitation that has fallen
What is rain guage
300
This type of air mass is over land, near the equator and is warm and dry
What is continental tropical
300
This type of weather occurs when a cold front approaches a warm front
What is brief heavy precipitation and sometimes thunderstorms
300
The temperature of the air does what as the carbon dioxide in the air increases
What is increases
400
This cloud looks thin and wispy
What is cirrus cloud?
400
This tool measures the air pressure
What is a barometer
400
This type of air mass happens over water, near the poles, and is cold and moist
What is Maritime Polar
400
This type of weather occurs AFTER a cold front approaches a warm front
What is cooler clear weather
400
When the amount of carbon dioxide in the air decreases the air temperature....
What is also decreases
500
This cloud may produce fair weather or light rain/snow showers
What is a cumulous cloud
500
This tool measures humidity
What is a hygrometer
500
This tupe of air mass is over water, near the equator and is warm and moist
What is Maritime tropical
500
This happens when a warm air mass replaces a cold air mass
What is warm air slides up and over the cold air. The warm air is pushed up and stratus clouds are formed.
500
These are ways that global warming impacts Clinton, Iowa
What is hotter/longer summers, shorter winters, more flooding, etc.
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